1 Introduction -- Part I: Issues in Happiness Research—Concepts, Measurement and Interpretation -- 2 Happiness: Research and Policy Considerations (Bruno Frey and Jana Gallus) -- 3 The ‘Wicked Problem’ of Wellbeing: Theorising the Prospects for Policy Change (Ian Bache and Louise Reardon)...

The book attempts to examine whether trade unions in Japan contributed to raising wages, productivity and firm's performance. In the western world trade unions are often regarded as organizations which prevent firms from performing well. The Japanese case may be different from Europe and North...

1 Seven Intellectual Ventures -- 2 Student Movement -- 3 Three of My Seniors -- 4 “Reiji Himeoka” -- 5 Nouvelle Vague -- 6 From Whence My DNA -- 7 Childhood -- 8 Middle School Years -- 9 High School Years -- 10 Sugamo Prison and Anti-Security Treaty Struggle -- 11 Dissolution of the Bund --...

This volume collects 22 articles by Masahiko Aoki, selected from writings published over the course of his 45-year academic career. These fascinating essays cover a range of issues, including mechanism design, comparative governance, corporate governance, institutions and institutional change,...